[Closed] When wars were colder, planes were cooler!

Was fascinated by SR71 when I was a kid. Awesome is an overused word but pretty apt for an aircraft that broke 4 world records on its retirement run!

If you want big things making lots of noise and smoke I give you a B-47b [s]JATO[/s] oops RATO
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Found one ^clicky for biggy^

Never realised how big those b47's were, howzabout this for an idea of scale
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That maybe a big carrier but its amazing how small the landing section of the deck looks relative to the F14 sat on it.

Can't believe Fireflash hasn't been up yet.

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And another....

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Hey Rudeboy, I've a mate who's an avionics tech with the RAF who told me a similar tale about the SR71 pi$$ing fuel when on the tarmac back in about 91', i thought it was a tall tale at the time.........maybe not.........and ekranoplans.....i WANT a caspian sea monster (Kai M?) great documentary on Ch4 years ago!

It's got to be old skool for me:
(It took 3 years at university and 2 years in the industry to cure this 'plane nut)
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and, of course, the daddy:
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This thread is brining back so many happy memories of childhood weekends spent at airshows 🙂

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Go on then, what is it?

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and this!

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and this!!
(nerd)

Best....thread...ever.

My Dad flew a few of the planes in this thread.

Guess which one he used to tow targets past navel ships for them to practice gunnery at...nutter.

bikemonkey is that a c160 then!

ive Marshalled them onto a slot at akrotiri for the frog air force!!

Not realy cold war as it was all but over by the time i could walk,

But i do remember having picknics in the lakes watching tornado's doing bombing practice over coniston.

Transall C-160

Not sure if its been posted earlier, but the F105 Thunderchief was a favourite of mine.

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Great thread!

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CFH- JP was a great aircraft. My brother was in on of the final flights to do their basic flying training in the JP; 'The Last of the Fast', before it was replaced by the Tucano.

Cuddly appearance given teeth in Strikemaster guise!

yes C-160. How about this:

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you want to stand in front of some these big buggers and try marshalling them, tis quite interesting .

fun though

some of the RAF Herc captains are nutters by the way , i was out in Iraq one year not so long ago and there was a Herc coming into Basra , the thing was soooooo low in the desert he had to pull up over the perimeter fence which could of been 15-20ft high max!!!!!

Cheers MtbCol, you've answered a question which has been bugging me for weeks.

It was a C17 Globemaster I saw flying out of Birmingham Airport a while back. Didn't recognize it at all, just knew it was mahoosive, had a T-tail and 4 engines - very impressive.

Quick search turns out to be troops being flown into Selly Oak.

Bell Huey Cobra:

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A cheeky Fokker!

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Tooslow

liked pic nr 4 (Sea Fury) last of the greats..... inc shooting down a jet in combat in Korea.......

A10 Thunderbolt every time.

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Love those Thuds. it was said of Republic (the makers of mahoosive fighters; See P47s) that if some-one built a runway round the world, Republic would make a fighter that needed it to take off...It was also a running joke amongst F105 pilots that Evasion tactics in a Thud was; Undoing the straps and running round the cockpit.

Mind you this was quite pretty as well;

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What's with all these things that the earth repels because they're so ugly?

Shackletons. Jeez-o

The most interesting thing I've ever been on was one of these - whilst in action (unfortunately I can't remember what other types were involved).
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Another vote for the Warthog.

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I used to spend hours watching these on the range at Donna Nook when we used to go camping there each summer. I also remember sitting in the back of minbus whilst one of these stalked us for target practice, scary - somewhere up near Ladybower IIRC.

One of my personal favourite aircraft still has to be this:
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Ugly beast, but very impressive. Just about squeaks in as a cold war aircraft (reasonable definition of the end of the cold war being the fall of the Berlin Wall I presume?)

Does it say something about this thread that nobody's claimed either 100 or 200 - or are people simply growing out of that now longer threads seem to be so much more common on the new forum?

I was always fascinated by the slightly unusual aircraft. Just being the fastest was a bit dull.

So I liked the Harrier and the A10.

But if we're talking the ultimate Cold War flying machine then it has to be...

[b]Saturn V[/b]

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A couple more cold war classics

Vought F-8 Crusader
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Convair F-106 Delta Dart
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No- dount count. Snot a 'plane.

Hekelopters are, as they have spinning 'planes'.

(D'you think they'll buy that one?)

+1 for the A10

....but I really have a soft spot for:
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...so much so I bought one of [url= http://www.starshipdiaries.com/book.html ]these books.[/url]

Hekelopters are, as they have spinning 'planes'.

Technically true.

Didn't someone post an X plane earlier on? That's just a rocket as well.

Yes, it is. It's 'wings' are too stubby for it to be considered a true 'plane', I'd say.

Mind, I spose it uses it's winglets to help it steer, and for landings, so I'm not sure....

and for landings, so I'm not sure....

One nose wheel and some skis

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I bought a kit of this, sometime back in the late 80s, I think:

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Mig 37B 'Ferret-E'.

A completely fictitious aircraft, dreamed up by the kit manufacturers.

Cool, though!

Just trawling back through this thread, in relation to Harriers:

Sharkey (the author) said that they used to beat F-15s in mock dog fights during exercises like Red Flag because they could turn inside any of the large and more powerful fighters, a great aircraft IMO.

Don't think we've actually had a picture of one of these yet (sorry if I've missed it) - an archetypal cold war aircraft:
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Came across this one whilst browsing - how awesome does that look?
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Another RN Phantom Cat launch

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Tornado F3, Typhoon, and IAF SU30MKI
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Always Loved Russian designs, SU27

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Saab Viggens

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Mirage2000

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Why do Tornados always have that dirty bit on the lower bit of the fin?

I believe it's from the thrust reversers when they land

Why do Tornados always have that dirty bit on the lower bit of the fin?

Someone shat out of the window?

That pic of the Phantom above; anyone notice the 'phantom' deck crew?? Spooky... 😯

Awesome thread, will it ever end?

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I always liked these (amongst many already posted), however crappy they may look

and these:
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